md5sum is missing, but not entirely

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 08:29, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Both the executable and the manpage for md5sum seem to be missing
> from this 6.1-RELEASE system, making it difficult to check the
> downloaded 6.2-RELEASE and FreeSBIE ISOs.  Isn't md5sum supposed
> to be part of the base?
> 

yes, md5 is part of the base system. Just leave the "sum" part out
of it. There is also "openssl md5 $FILE" available.

> Meanwhile, "apropos md5" yields this line, among others
You have missed:
dgst(1), md5(1), md4(1), md2(1), sha1(1), sha(1), mdc2(1), \
ripemd160(1) - message digests

HTH, Nikos